Sights Quotes

195 Sights quotes by 183 unique authors

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any… — Herman Melville
What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! — William Shakespeare
Most companies aim to get bigger. But beyond a certain point, bigness becomes synonymous with badness. Think of Big Pharma, Big Auto, Big Oil. Worse,… — Andrew Hill
Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack. — Rudyard Kipling
The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down the mountain road… — Adriana Trigiani
I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems. — Arnold Adoff
Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going after what they… — Bob Proctor
If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of… — Terry Brooks
So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you… — Price Pritchett
Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that… — Susan Rothenberg
One of the saddest sights to me has always been a human at a keyboard doing something by hand that could be automated. It's sad… — Boris Beizer
A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not,… — Jude Morgan
When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in the present moment. — Deepak Chopra
Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it… — Pico Iyer
The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female. — Benjamin Franklin
I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing. — Mary Oliver
This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next. — Jay Sekulow
There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of… — Solomon Northup
We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against… — Alan Gussow
A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights. — John Steinbeck
Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor… — Ted Koppel
You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher… — Willi Unsoeld
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history — Judy Chicago
I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high… — Neil Gaiman
I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me.… — Natalie Merchant

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